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Here are the best easy juicing recipes using fresh fruits and vegetables: no juicer required! Whip up these healthy drinks in a blender.

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Want to make healthy juicing recipes at home? Store-bought juice can be expensive, and you don’t get the added benefit of using veggies from your produce drawer. Homemade juicing recipes are fast and easy: and cut down on food waste!

Even better, you don’t even need a juicer. All you need is a blender to make juice at home! It’s helpful to have a high speed blender, but it’s not required. Before we get started, let’s talk about the health behind juicing.

Benefits of juicing…and caveats

First off: what are the actual benefits of juicing? Drinking juice recipes is not a cure-all. In fact, we do not recommend juice cleanses (see below). Here’s an outline of the pros and cons of juicing recipes:

  • Juice benefits you may have heard of are over-hyped. Celery juice does not make you skinnier or cure diseases. Don’t drink juice to try to cure specific ailments.
  • Avoid juice cleanses. Research associates juice cleanses with disordered eating and a negative relationship with food (read more here).
  • Drinking vegetables as juice gives you benefits, but no fiber. It’s actually even better to eat the whole vegetable.
  • Most veggies and fruits are low in calories but high in nutrients. Drinking their juice gives you an infusion of vitamins!
  • Juicing recipes are a good alternative to soda or other sugary drinks. Instead of drinking the empty calories and sugar in a soda, reaching for this juice is hands down a better choice!

So, if you’re ready to enjoy the nutrients of fresh fruits and veggies, use up your produce, and have a healthy alterative to sugary drinks — let’s go!

And now…a few easy juicing recipes to try!

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Green juice

6 Easy Juicing Recipes (Blender or Juicer!)


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  • Author: Sonja Overhiser
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 0 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: About 2 cups 1x
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Here are the best easy juicing recipes using fresh fruits and vegetables: no juicer required! Whip up these healthy drinks in a blender.


Ingredients

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For the green juice

  • 1 cup water
  • 2 medium apples, cut into chunks
  • 3 cups baby spinach leaves (or chopped spinach or baby kale)
  • 2 celery ribs, roughly chopped
  • 1/2 cucumber, peeled and roughly chopped
  • ½ tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice

For the carrot juice

  • 1 pound carrots (2 ½ cups), chopped
  • 1 large apple, chopped
  • 1 large orange, peeled
  • 1 pinch salt
  • ½ cup water
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice

For the celery juice

  • 8 medium-large stalks of celery (about 1 bunch), roughly chopped
  • 1 large green apple, roughly chopped
  • ½ cup water
  • 1 teaspoon lemon or lime juice (optional)

For the cucumber juice

  • 1 large English cucumber (or 1 to 1/2 standard cucumbers, peeled), roughly chopped
  • 1 green apple, chopped
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 pinch salt
  • ½ tablespoon lemon or lime juice (optional)

For the watermelon juice

  • 4 cups cubed seedless watermelon, chilled

For the grapefruit juice

  • 2 pink grapefruits, quartered and peeled
  • 2 large apples
  • ½ cup ice
  • ¼ cup cold water
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 teaspoon honey, maple or agave syrup, plus more to taste (optional)

Instructions

  1. In a blender: Place the ingredients (except citrus juice) in a blender. Blend on high until pureed and a juice forms. Pass the juice through a fine mesh sieve or a nut milk bag to strain out the pulp (skip this step for the watermelon juice). Discard the pulp (or use: see ideas above). Stir in the fresh citrus juice (add more if desired). Drink immediately over ice, or chill before drinking.
  2. In a juicer: Add all ingredients to a juicer, except the citrus juice. Stir in the fresh citrus juice (add more if desired). Drink immediately over ice, or chill before drinking.
  • Category: Juice
  • Method: Blender
  • Cuisine: Juice
  • Diet: Vegan

About the authors

Sonja & Alex

Hi, we’re Alex and Sonja Overhiser, married cookbook authors, food bloggers, and recipe developers. We founded A Couple Cooks to share fresh, seasonal recipes and the joy of cooking! Our recipes are made by two real people and work every time.

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2 Comments

  1. Mia Long says:

    Why not just give the recipes to the juice? The beginning was kind of negative to me.

  2. Sonja Overhiser says:

    Let us know if you have any questions!